DICE Has Something Very Special in Battlefield 2042 Portal

Today, I played the Conquest of the Ages playlist on Battlefield 2042 Portal, and it was amazing to see Noshar Canals and Caspian Border in the new Frostbite engine. The last time I played Battlefield 3 Conquest on Noshar Canals was on 5/12/2013, and Caspian Border was on 5/3/2013. That was 8 years ago. Life was very different back then. Battlefield was very different back then. 

 

Noshar Canals in Battlefield 3

Caspian Border in Battlefield 3

To be able to play these two maps again in Portal mode feels unreal. The feeling of nostalgia when I saw this for the very first time is unreal. Running through the center of the map brings back memories of the countless hours spent on TDM. I learned to play Battlefield on this map. Playing as a support player in TDM was the way to go back then. Without this map, I probably never would have gotten into Battlefield.

DICE has something special on their hands with Portal. I hope they do the right thing, and support this mode for the foreseeable future.

Workaround for Battlefield 2042 (PC) and Nvidia ShadowPlay Video Resolution Issue

When using Nvidia ShadowPlay to record gameplay clips, I often found that the video was getting saved with a resolution of 1280x720, even though ShadowPlay is configured to record at in game resolution, which in my case was 3440x1440 (Ultrawide resolution). 

This is probably because when the game first starts, it opens a window with a smaller resolution, and then scales up to the native resolution. 

The only fix to this that I could find was to stop ShadowPlay recording (Alt + Shift + F10) and then start it at which point, the recordings are in the current native resolution.

This is the recording after stopping and starting ShadowPlay.